I love Sinatra’s version of The Lady is a Tramp.” I love the kind of girl and person it represents. When I told my daughter that the song I’d recommend for her Debutante dance be that song it puzzled her and everyone else.” Why would you choose that one daddy. I’m a tramp?” Well…read and listen more closely. Then it dawned on me that another favorite of mine was “Meet Virginia” and for the very same reason.

On one of the first dates with my wife at about eleven at night and before dessert, she ordered coffee. I was a junior in college and had never heard of anyone having coffee in the middle of the night and before dessert. I know it’s done, I am saying to me at the time it was quirky. I liked it. A “tangential kinda person.” “Edgy” ” I don’t roll that way” ” Beat…